mediamatters.org - 11/1/2009
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Numerous conservative media outlets are pushing a distortion of comments made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a roundtable discussion with business leaders in Pakistan to suggest that she celebrated the notion that "[w]e tax everything that moves and doesn't move," in contrast to ...
atimes.com - 11/1/2009
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Taliban take over Afghan province By Syed Saleem
Shahzad ISLAMABAD - The United States has withdrawn its...
troops from its four key bases in Nuristan, on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led ...
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tnr.com - 10/30/2009
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This is pretty great. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton expressed doubt Thursday over Pakistan's failure to...
locate top al-Qaeda leaders in the eight years since they escaped over the border from Afghanistan, telling a group of Pakistani ...
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Hillary Gets Tough; Will it Work?
truthdig.com - 11/1/2009
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By William Pfaff When Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton visits Pakistan this week, she will hear a...
lot about how fearful the Pakistan populace is, not of the Taliban and al-Qaida, but of the United States. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related ...
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Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People
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Conservative media push distorted comments to claim Clinton “admitted” Democrats tax everything
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Conservative media push distorted comments to claim Clinton “admitted” Democrats tax everything Numerous conservative media outlets are pushing a distortion of comments made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a roundtable discussion with business leaders in Pakistan to suggest that she celebrated the notion that “[w]e tax everything that moves and doesn’t move,” in contrast to lower tax rates in Pakistan. But in her comments, Clinton actually called on Pakistan to raise more revenue of its own, rather than relying on U.S. aid, and said that U.S. taxpayers and Congress say, “[W]e want to help those who help themselves.” ...
Hillary Clinton: Low Marginal Tax Rates Lead to Terrorism
Hit & Run —
... -- seems to say that:
“Maybe that’s the case; maybe they’re not gettable. I don’t
know... As far as we know, they are in Pakistan,” Clinton told
senior Pakistani newspaper editors in Lahore, AFP reported.
“The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the
lowest in the world... We (the United States) tax everything
that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in
Pakistan,” she said.
Media Matters says
Clinton's detractors are taking the quotes out of context, and
cites an ...
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